Are you voting this year?

Discussion in 'Opinion POLLS' started by modernpaladin, Jan 21, 2020.

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Are you voting this year?

  1. I'm not eligible to vote in the US

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  2. I'm not voting because the choices are all crap.

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  3. Im not voting because the system is rigged.

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  4. I'm not voting because my choice has no chance.

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  5. I'm not voting my vote won't matter.

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  6. I'm voting!

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  1. modernpaladin

    modernpaladin Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Are you voting this year?
     
  2. Blaster3

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    yep, registered dem so i can screw their primaries april 28th, then come nov vote for trump (even if i have to write him in after impeachment)...

    just to skew their data...
     
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    I will be voting for whoever is not Trump instead of repeating my mistake last time and not voting because they both suck....lesson learned.
     
  4. Pollycy

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    I have voted in every election that I could participate in since I turned age 21 (what seems like a million years ago). So, yeah, you BET I'll be voting this November!

    I'm not happy with a number of his decisions, actions, policies, or his tactless MOUTH, but, I'll probably vote for Trump again, if only because everyone I see on the Democrat side is just incompetent, economic stupidity, social ruin, and foreign-policy disaster!
     
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    I'm voting and my choices are all crap.
     
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    As an Independent I will cast my vote for whomever will do the best job for We the People.

    At the present time the GOP is doing the WORST job for We the People.

    They still have 9 months to turn themselves around.
     
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  7. Pollycy

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    I agree with you in principle, and although I'm no great Trump 'enthusiast', I must disagree that the GOP is doing "the WORST job".... Ensconcing approximately HALF the population of the United States in one form of handout welfare or another was surely the WORST thing that any administration could do... and that distinction belongs to Comrade Obama and his regime during eight, long, miserable years.

    Approximately six months ago I remember that you liked Andrew Yang, and, except for some of his lock-step Democrat welfare giveaway ideas (Universal Basic Income...(?), I still have a respectable regard for him, too. Do you still like him?

    I'd also be keenly interested in your view on the rather recent candidacy of Michael Bloomberg! He's a businessman, of course, who actually understands what an economy IS, and how an economy WORKS (unlike so many on the Left) -- and he has had the experience of governing a very large bureaucracy although not a national level. Except for his 'social-justice-warrior' nonsense about everything from soft drinks to being conspicuously anti-Second Amendment, I think he's got a good 'shot' -- especially with no less than FIFTY BILLION DOLLARS at his disposal.

    What think ye, Te...?
     
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    there in lays the problem with politics for the last 50+ years... it should never require vast sums of money to become a politician...

    flip side, no politician should ever be allowed to become a multimillionaire while in office...

    case in point (there are many others, but she a great example), pelosi 30 years in congress started out with little, now worth $192+ million...

    obviously earned every penny while in office, exactly what is the salary of a congressman/woman?

    time to put an end to career politicians... limit to 10 years over a lifetime, in any capacity.
     
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    Yes, we disagree on the reasons why half the population receives some kind of handout because if the Wall Street Casino Banksters were not BRIBING the GOP to allow them to STEAL from the wages of hardworking Americans they would be earning enough to no need those welfare benefits. In effect the GOP is SUBSIDIZING the PAYROLLS of CORPORATIONS with BORROWED taxpayer dollars and funneling all of the money into the OFFSHORE bank accounts of the Wealthy elite.

    Both Yang and Warren are aware of this GOP SCAM and intend to expose it and end it which is WHY they are a THREAT to the Wall Street Banksters and that is also WHY Bloomberg has entered the race. He KNOWS that Warren is going to put an end to his UNEARNED cash flow and PRUNE it back to what is a sane and reasonable amount that does NOT leave hardworking Americans reliant upon welfare.

    As you might recall Warren is also the ONLY candidate who is willing to ensure that our Social Security is both PRESERVED and full funded so as to provide REALISTIC increases that WILL keep up with inflation.

    So if you have decided to abandon your SS soapbox then Bloomberg is the horse you want to back and you can count on your SS check SHRINKING each and every year for the rest of our life while the GREED OBSESSED plutocrats like Bloomberg POCKET what should have been in your bank account, Cy.

    Since Yang is no longer a contender the only sane alternative is Warren because she WILL protect your interests because she has a TRACK RECORD of going after the Wall Street Casino Banksters and they fear her the most. Bloomberg is just another Establishment Shill and will do you and I more harm than good IMO.

    You did ask for my opinion and I am being as straightforward as I can be. We KNOW that the IMPOTUS is a self serving POS so voting for him would be the WORST option IMO. If Kasich was on the ballot I might be considering him as an alternative but right now I see NOTHING on the right that meets my criteria of what is best for We the People and slim pickings on the left because Biden is just another Establishment shill like Bloomberg.
     
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    I do agree with you on quite a number of your points, and yet disagree on others... so it will probably always be, but we could very strongly agree about the collusive and ABUSIVE 'back-scratching' and 'quantitative easings' that were lavished on Korporate Amerika and the 'almighty-god' stock market! You can't heap more scorn on both Idiot Bush or Idiot Obama than me for allowing any of that to happen -- but it is reflective of the FACT that central banks like the Fed rule over and control everything of importance in every economy in the world, EXCEPT for those of the Russian Federation and China! Idiot Bush AND Idiot Obama were nothing but door-stops and stooges for the Federal Reserve System, and we both know it, Te....

    Some degree of public 'assistance' was appropriate, I suppose, until the Great Recession officially ended in June 2009, but never forget Newton's First Law, "Objects at rest tend to remain at rest". For YEARS, Obama especially made it easy for people to turn into welfare-sucking slackers, fraud-artists, slobs, and bums -- and they learned that by voting for 'Socialism-lite' hucksters like Obama, they could probably continue to get a lot of what they needed from the government in the form of subsistence welfare handouts of a dozen different kinds. Now they eagerly anticipate the return of another 'Obama' who will give them more of what they want -- but have not EARNED!

    Still, in my view, Elizabeth Warren could have completely walked away with this election by continuing to proclaim -- LOUDLY AND CONSISTENTLY -- her intention to provide Social Security recipients with the first decent increases in their EARNED benefits in over ten long years. That would have been hugely important to 70,000,000 Baby Boomer voters, who are notorious for voting in EVERY election (me included), but, today she's pissing her time away on abstruse 'social justice warrior' trivia instead of demanding that a corrupt criminal like Joe Biden leave the race immediately, and then taking command of this election! Instead, she'll probably continue to allow her candidacy to be 'painted into a corner', and then be pushed off the 'back burner' by Bloomberg.

    I'm sad to see Yang go.... I thought he had real potential, honestly. But, too little recognition, and that 'guaranteed basic income' thing was dead-on-arrival, especially funded by a crushing, European-style "VAT" (Value Added Tax). Ha! Ask my German friends how much fun THAT thing is....
     
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    Yup. Voting straight Republican (aka "against Marxism") and writing in a candidate whenever a Democrat is the only option on the ticket.
     
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    ... and working as hard as possible to take away your freedoms (speech, guns, due process, etc...)

    If you wish to remain a free man instead of becoming a government slave, vote Republican.
     
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    Then I'd say don't choose by the candidate, but by who will protect your freedoms and not make you into a government slave and attempt to strip you of your freedoms.

    Republicans generally stand for freedom, while Democrats generally stand for government tyranny. Democrats are also the party of racism, hatred, violence, division, bigotry, etc... Their rallies tend to be very violent, while Republican rallies (as seen in Virginia) tend to be very peaceful.

    I genuinely believe that anything other than a straight Republican ticket is either directly or indirectly supporting Marxism (and the hatred, racism, bigotry, division, violence, etc. etc. that is all encompassing of the Democrat Party)
     
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    Smartmouthwoman Bless your heart Past Donor

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    No, you are a flaming liberal, not an "independent".

    You don't like record breaking economic success, stock market success, employment numbers, etc??
     
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    I agree with Pollycy 100%, but I did miss a few elections in my early-mid twenties.
     
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    I'm voting. I consider it my civic duty to vote. I've voted in every Presidential election since 1976. (Was that the year Carter won?)
     
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    partially correct, although the most significant outcome of that era, was how the democrats collaborated to remove the shah, and install the ayatollah, giving birth to global terrorism and sub sequentially, isis...
     
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    I'm a Republican so unfortunately I only get to vote once. Dang-it
     
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    I thought it was Reagan who did that? Remember how the hostages were released the day after Reagan took office? Like it was planned?
     
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    every republican ends up voting democrat...

    after death
     
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    Of course.
     
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    I've never missed a vote in 3 decades
     
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